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The Libourne Museum of fine arts is an art museum in the city of Libourne in the Gironde. Located on the second floor of City Hall, it was founded in 1818. Its collections feature works by the European schools from the 14th century to the 20th century.

The Museum has the particularity to present a remarkable collection of old paintings, rare for a city of province of the size of Libourne, and thanks to the action of Duke Élie Decazes, powerful Minister and the police then the inside of Louis XVIII. Originally from Libourne, created the Museum in 1818 and dota of an initial Fund of works, including a painting by Bartolomeo Manfredi, first given to the Church of St. John in 1819 and who then entered the Museum.Several bequests and donations have also increased the Fund's local paintings, including the painter libournais René Princeteau, who introduced Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which he was the first master to the painting of horses.